High-speed singleybreath-hold microycomputed tomography of thoracic and abdominal structures in mice using a simplified method for intubation

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 783-790

  Boll, Hanne ^a   Bag, Simona ^a   Schambach, Sebastian J ^a   Doyon, Fabian ^a   Nittka, Stefanie ^b   Kramer, Martin ^c   Groden, Christoph ^a   Brockmann, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Breath hold; Intubation; Mice; Micro CT

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS;

ANIMAL STUDIES; BREATH-HOLD; HIGH SPEED; IN-VIVO; INTRAPERITONEAL ADMINISTRATION; INTUBATION; MICRO CT; MOUSE; RESPIRATORY GATINGS; SIMPLIFIED METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ROCURONIUM; SUGAMMADEX; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; NANOPARTICLE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; INTUBATION; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE BREATH NITROGEN TEST; THORAX EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; XENOGRAFT;

ANDROSTANOLS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NANOPARTICLES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77958127806     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181e1050a     Document Type: Article

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